Package: gddrescue Version: 1.23-2+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: f...@debian.org
Hi Michael, Thank you so much for maintaining gddrescue which has helped me rescue failing disks quite a few times. GNU ddrescue 1.26 has been released, and it would be really nice if you could upgrade the Debian packaging from 1.23 to 1.26 at your convenience. Here are the links to the release announcements: * 1.24: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-02/msg00012.html * 1.25: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-03/msg00002.html * 1.26: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-01/msg00013.html Changes in version 1.24: * The new option '--command-mode' has been added. It activates a scripting interface similar to the one of ed which reads commands from the standard input and executes them, copying parts of the input file on demand. * Ddrescue now tries to create a backup copy of the mapfile, with the name <mapfile>.bak, every time it is going to overwrite a fsynced mapfile. On startup, ddrescue verifies that the backup mapfile (if it exists) is not a non-regular file, and that its name is not the same as infile or outfile. * It has been documented that when ddrescue finishes, the contents of any areas marked as bad-sector remain untouched in the output file. * The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS using the syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'. Changes in version 1.25: * Default constructors have been added to classes Block and Sblock. (Reported by Rosen Penev). * A failure in 'make check', happening when testing under a directory with spaces in the name, has been fixed. (Reported by David Morrison). * In rescue mode, any non-finished subsector that is now found during the initial read of the mapfile will be joined to its corresponding sector (if it is also not finished), marking the whole sector with the less processed state, so as to make sure that sub-sector data will not be discarded from a successful read during the rescue. (A subsector is a block smaller than the sector size). (Reported by David Burton). * The time needed to write the mapfile is now excluded from the mapfile save and sync intervals. (It seems that some mapfiles take 7 seconds to write). (Reported by David Burton). * Ddrescue now extends the output file using 'ftruncate' if it works, because it is slightly more efficient. * Large numbers in messages (like device sizes) are now printed in groups of 3 digits separated by underscore '_' characters to make them more readable. Changes in version 1.26: * While writing the mapfile, ddrescue now checks the return value of each call to 'fprintf' to catch any temporary failure of 'fprintf' not reported by the system when closing the file. (Hole in mapfile reported by Radomír Tomis). * Domain mapfiles may now contain unordered and overlapping blocks when '-L, --loose-domain' is specified as long as no block overlaps with other block of different status. (Suggested by Gábor Katona and Shaya Potter). * Ddrescue now shows the file name in all the diagnostics with a file involved. (Reported by Radomír Tomis). * Ddrescue now exits with status 1 on fatal read errors. (Suggested by Marco Marques). * Empty phases are now completely skipped. * Ddrescue now scrolls forward after each pass. This keeps on the screen the final status of the previous pass, making it easier to estimate the amount of work done by the current pass. (Based on a suggestion by David Morrison). * In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, ddrescue now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values. * The option synonyms '--*-logfile' and '--pause' have been removed and are no longer recognized. * Ddrescuelog now can convert between mapfiles and bitmaps of blocks (big and little endian). The new option '-F, --format' has been added to ddrescuelog. It selects the input format for '--create-mapfile', or the output format for '--list-blocks'. (Bitmap format proposed by Florian Sedivy). * Option '-d, --delete-if-done' of ddrescuelog no longer returns an error if the mapfile is read from standard input. Instead it behaves like '-D, --done-status' because there is nothing to delete. * 'ddrescuelog --show-status' now rounds percentages up to get the sum closer to 100%. * Three missing '#include <algorithm>' have been added. (Reported by Richard Burkert). * The description of the algorithm in the manual has been improved. Many thanks! Kind regards, Anthony Fok -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gddrescue depends on: ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 12-20220319-1 ii libstdc++6 12-20220319-1 gddrescue recommends no packages. Versions of packages gddrescue suggests: ii ddrescueview 0.4.5-1 -- no debconf information